The article that I’m going to talk about is “The one word that can save your life”. The article had mainly talks about the risks of certain surgery, such as knee surgery and cardiac CT angiography. It brought out some of the harmful effects of these surgeries as well, such as side effects and more exposure to high levels of radiation. Its main purpose is to tell audience to consider the harmful effects and potential risks of the surgeries before they took them, as some surgeries took more harm than good.
After reading the article, I was appalled by how some research had proven the vast amount of harmful effects of surgeries, yet no result was shown. For example, in a recent study, 1000 low-risk patients who had CT angiography had no fewer heart attacks or deaths over the next 18 months than 1000 patients who did not undergo the screening. Nonetheless, they took drugs and tests, all of which carry a risk of side effects, surgical complications. Therefore, I was really stumbled as I had thought that surgeries were meant to improve a patient’s condition. However, after reading the article, my perspective of the surgeries nowadays had changed. I had learnt to look at the surgeries at an objective point of view, to look at both the benefits and harmful effects.
There is also another example, whereby a 52 year old woman undergoes cardiac CT, but not only did the condition not improved, one of her artery was tore too. I was really shocked at how some surgeries could have proven nothing worthwhile, yet so complicated. This article had really served everyone a warning, to really consider the risk of a surgery before taking it.
I feel that there is not enough reflection being done in this reflective post. The main idea of this post is to reflect on your new knowledge or the topics discussed in the article. In your blog post, the bulk of it is giving brief statements about facts presented in the article. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that. It is totally fine, but it does not show a lot of depth and understanding after reading the article. Also, we cannot see whether you have done a lot of reflection on the topic because it did not have a lot of personal thoughts and implications from the issues being presented.
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